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Sector's costs changed 0.24% in November

The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today by the IBGE, recorded a change of 0.24% in November, a result below the 0.43% registered in Ocotber. In the cumulative index of the year, o the result was 4.18%. With less than a month to go before the end of the year, construction prices...

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Crop estimate declines in February, but record crop forecast is confirmed

Corn crop is expected to grow 23.9% compared to 2021 - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The national grain crop should reach 261.6 million metric tons in 2022, according to the February estimate of the Systematic Survey of Agricultural Production (LSPA), released today (March 10) by the IBGE. This...

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August inflation preview stands at 0.23 with high in fuel prices

Price rise in gasoline drove August inflation preview up - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, stood at 0.23% in August. In the year, the IPCA-15 registered a cumulative rise of 0.90% and in 12 months it reached...

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Costs of civil construction rise 1.44% in September, highest rise since 2013

For the third month, inflation of material contributed to rise construction costs - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Released today (9) by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 1.44% in September, the highest rate since July 2013 and 0.56 percentage points above that registered...

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Inflation in industry stays at 4.78% in March, second highest rise since 2014

The biggest load in the March IPP came from oil refining and ethanol products (1.53 p.p.) - Photo: André Motta de Souza/Petrobras Agency The industrial prices increased 4.78% in March over February, the second highest rise in the time series of the Producer Price Index - IPP, started in 2014. In February,...

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Specialized services increase participation in construction sector between 2010 and 2019

Population employed in industry records first increase since 2014 - Photo: Gilson Abreu/AEN-PR Construction industry generated R$ 288.0 billion in value of real estate development, works and/or services in 2019, with R$ 273.8 for works and/or services (95.1%) and R$ 14.2 billion for real estate development...

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Number of organizations with at least one employed person grows 3.4% in 2019

Number of salaried personnel grew 1.7%, with a positive balance of 758.6 thousand persons - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/Agência IBGE Notícias After having registered three consecutive years of declines, the number of formal organizations grew again in the country, reaching 5.2 million in 2019 (up 6.1%)....

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Miriam Leitão reflects upon the country's future at inaugural class in School of Statistics

The journalist presented the result of nearly three years of interviews, trips and data analyses - Photo: Álvaro Vasconcellos/IBGE Journalist Miriam Leitão gave a lecture, yesterday (11), at the inaugural class of the Doctoral and Master's Program of Population, Territory and Public Statistics, at the National...

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Inflation forecat speeds up in April with the highest rate since truckers' strike

Gasoline prices - up 3.22% - exert biggest single impact on April IPCA-15 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency After recording a 0.54% high in March, the inflation preview accelerated to 0.72% in April, driven by price increases in the groups Transportation and Food and beverages. This is the highest...

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GDP grows 1.0% in first quarter, leveraged by services sector

Restaurant services are among those that influenced the growth of the GDP - Photo: Vanderlei Farias/Secom Cascavel The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 1.0% in the first quarter this year, compared with the last quarter a year ago. This is the third positive figure after the retreat in the second quarter...

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Fuels contribute to deflation of 0.31% in April, lowest index in 22 years

Gasoline deflation was registered in all the 16 areas surveyed in April - Tony Winston/Brasilia Local Branch With a decrease of 9.59% in fuels prices, deflation in the country was 0.31% in April, after recording 0.07% in March. The result is the lowest monthly change since August 1998, when it reached...

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Industry keeps upward trend with 0.3% high

Motor vehicles drive high in industrial production - Photo: Brian Snelson / Wikimedia The national industrial production had a positive change of 0.3% in September over August. It is the second month in a row of growth, leveraged mainly by the production of motor vehicles, with a high of 4.3%. The data...

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Services sector advances 1.1% in July, third increase in a row

Information technology services drove the 1.1% high of the information and communication sector - Photo: Pixabay The volume of services rendered in the country grew 1.1% from June to July, the third consecutive positive result, a period in which it accumulates a gain of 2.4%. With this result, the sector...

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Tomorrow, Producer Price Index will start to provide more detailed information

The IBGE will release tomorrow (05/11) a new edition of the Producer Price Index (IPP), this time relative to September. That will be the first release of the survey with detailed information, in a total 23 new series. With this change, the IPP will have groups data at a three-digit level in the National...

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Health and personal care influence on high in inflation forecast

The inflation forecast of April was of 0.21%. The group within which there is health and personal care had the highest change, 0.69%, and was the one that most had an impact on the result, 0.08 percentage point (pp). The price increases in health insurance (1.06%) and medicines (0.63%) were the main responsible for...

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Retail sales level off in November after series of increases

Hipermarkets and supermarkets record decrease in volume of sales in November - Photo: Helena Pontes/Agência IBGE Notícias After six consecutive months of increase with cumulative gains of 32.2%,volume of sales remained stable from October and November 202, with a change of -0.1%. Against the same period...

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Eating out consumes one third of expenditures of households with food

Families began to eat more away from home in rural areas, though habit is bigger in urban sector - Photo: IBGE Archive Eating away from home is becoming an option for more and more persons. Of the total expenditures of the Brazilian households with food, nearly one third (32.8%) is dedicated to meals...

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Motor vehicles and basic metals ensure positive IPP (0.12%) in May

Between April and May 2017, the IBGE's Producer Price Index (IPP), which measures the price changes of the general industry (mining and quarrying plus manufacturing) without taxes or freight, changed 0.12%, after shrinking 0.11% in the previous month. In the year, prices recorded a slight drop (-0.07%),...

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Crops bring unprecedented drop in food industry prices in 2018

Driven by the record crop of Brazilian agriculture, the food industry had the first drop in prices in one year (-7.29%) since 2010, when the time series of the Producer Price Index (IPP), released today by IBGE, began. Good harvests of soybeans, sugarcane and rice were some of the causes of such result,...

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GDP advances 1.2% in Q2, fourth positive result in a row

In-person services had an impact on the rise in GDP - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 1.2% in the second quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter. It is the fourth consecutive positive result of the indicator after the 0.3% decrease in the second...